Criticizing public leaders is a spectator sport in our culture. In some cases, the criticism is justified, for every profession has self-promoting hucksters within. But every so often it’s good for us to remember the perspective of Teddy Roosevelt, himself a frequently maligned servant of the people in his day. Spoken in 1910, his words are worth pondering 105 years later:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up... more»

When I read that 87 percent of all the scientists who ever lived are alive at this moment, I was surprised.
But, when I thought about it, I shouldn’t have been, because with technology multiplying exponentially, it’s only a natural phenomena.
A friend of mine told me something I never forgot regarding change: with every “yes” there is a corresponding “no.” Applying that to technology, I think about the devices we have lost in just the past 50 years.
One of the ingenious machines used in my trade was the telex machine. As an assistant in a public information office, I used it to... more»